It is like a high score to them.

I think we should enact universal healthcare, and pay for it with a wealth tax on the richest person in the US. 100% of the nation's healthcare will be paid by the richest person until the richest person is no longer the richest. Then the second richest person can start paying too. Nobody gets to be the exclusive richest. The uppermost class all share that title, and they can instead compete on number of lives saved.

I started to agree because I've also described it this way, it's definitely something very like mental illness, hoarding for sure combined with super low empathy.

But, I can't really let it lie there, because in general mental illness - while accurate - carries pretty deep assumptions of care and accommodation, for me, and these folks do not merit that. Can't merit that, sadly and frustratingly to me.

They cannot be healed, certainly cannot be accommodated. In the worst of em it's a deep hole in their humanity that nothing can fill. Nothing. They invent horrors which yet again fail to close that hole. And again. And again.

Not sure if I'm agreeing or disagreeing with you I spose, just unpacking.

Hold on, I think I have a sharper version lying around somewhere.. Yep, here it is!

Something tells me the force of the US military trumps any private CIA, but all of our leaders are scum so they'd never flex that muscle.

Let's be real, the chance of US or any nation state in its position to heavily undermine one of its biggest industries and add in another massive expense that would contribute further to its massive debt, completely going against its interests is straight up 0.

Propping up the military industrial complex, starting wars and boosting demand/profitability on the market through destruction of foreign capital though? Now we're talking!